I don't think I actually knew what sweet potatoes even were until a few years ago - to this day my stomach turns at the horror of knowing what I missed out on.

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Everyone - I think we want to try to do a run of new t-shirts for the holiday season. If we were to print one of the following two, which would you be more interested in?

The first shirt bears a quote from Hokusai that appeared as a postscript on One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji:

From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to prove that this is no lie.

Leave a note in the comments if you have interest one way or the other! Thanks. We're out!

Gotta say I'd pick the quote - the design is awesome, and that quote has always been one of my inspirations. A poster might be easier to read though... just put that design on something, and I'll buy it. :D

Both shirts are gorgeous, but I think that the lightning bolt is more flexible. If I were buying a print or a tote [winkwinknudgenudge] I would go for the Hokusai. My only concern with the shirt is that the design wouldn't look as good on as many people. Curvy girls, for instance, might look awkward in it. Just sayin'.

Sorry to say, but I wouldn't buy either as a t-shirt. The quote shirt I would consider buying if it was a poster, but neither the quote nor the lightning shirts really appeal to me. This is only my taste speaking but I feel the quote shirt's too cluttered and the lightning shirt's simple but not really exciting to me. I hope this helps. :)

I didn't read other people's comments because i'm writing from a cell phone, but if you add soil to sweetie pie's container ever so often, and make her grow taller and taller, she will grow new sweet potatoes for you, I believe. So one sweetie pie will become many after a few feet of added soil. Also_ my copy of Johnny Wander 1 has made my week more happy. Thenk you!

I like the thunderbolt design; it's more like something that I would wear. When wearing T-shirt, I prefer a simple design that someone can glance at and know what it is, rather than a mash of text that takes a while to look at.